Chapter 101: Calling Brothers and Brothers
"But this is not a long-term solution, I will always be confused when I meet others in the future, I have a way."
"What's the solution?" The two asked in unison.
Zou Shichu took out a copper coin and put it in his palm, and said with a smile, "Since no one knows which of you is big and who is small, let God decide." ”
Zou Shiyan looked at Zou Shichu's joke speechlessly.
Wang Chuan thought it was very interesting, he picked up the copper coin, and saw that on one side was the apocalypse, and on the other side was Tongbao.
Zou Shiyan explained that these two words represent the name and year name of the country respectively, and this is the eighteenth year of Tongbao, and the current emperor is Xuanzong, who is already over forty years old this year.
Not to mention the various state affairs and disputes of the imperial dynasty, just looking at the color of this copper coin can show that the treasury is empty, otherwise it would not have been missing so much copper but doped with a lot of zinc.
Zou Shichu smiled and said, "How is it?" The more reluctant the two brothers are to participate in the game, the more they decide who is the elder brother in the last year of the apocalypse? ”
"What if two people throw the same copper coins? And how? Wang Chuan was trying to tease him.
Zou Shichu thought about it and was not stumped by this question, "If the copper coins thrown by the two of you are on the same side, then try again, and you can always tell the winner!" Besides, you can also let me throw the copper coin, the apocalypse is the brother who wins, and the Tongbao is the brother who wins, and the brother who wins is the brother. ”
"Okay, then follow your second method, let's try!" Zou Shiyan said.
Wang Chuan also chimed in, "Since Brother Zou is willing to give it a try, why should I do it?" ”
So, under the joke of Zou Shichu, a child, the two of them began the game of seniority.
"Then I'll start, Zou Shichu pinched the copper coin with two fingers, and suddenly threw it upward, the copper coin spun and fell in the air, and finally made a crisp echo and fell on the stone table.
At the moment when the copper coin fell off the table, Zou Shichu hurriedly covered the rotating copper coin, and with a snap, the top of the silver coin was firmly covered by a small hand, and no one could see the font on it.
"Alright, let's take a guess!" Zou Shichu laughed mysteriously.
Zou Shiyan said cooperatively, "Then I guess it's Tongbao." As he spoke, he glanced at Wang Chuan, and the meaning in his eyes was obvious.
Wang Chuan was not in a hurry, he went with the flow, he said indifferently, "It's doomed anyway, it's useless for me to guess, let's open it quickly." ”
"Okay, then I'll open it." Zou Shichu said.
Zou Shichu's hand slowly moved along the edge of the stone table, and finally revealed the copper coin below, Zou Shichu and Wang Chuan both looked down and looked at it, and the word "Apocalypse" was engraved on it.
"Haha, from now on, I will be Brother Zou and Brother Wang!" Zou Shichu clapped his hands and said with a smile.
Zou Shiyan and Wang Chuan were also surprised, but it didn't matter, and the two quickly called each other.
"Brother Zou." Wang Chuan said.
"Brother Chuan." Zou Shiyan said.
The two of them gave gifts, the two were of similar age, similar figures, and even their looks were the same as the same extraordinary spirit, handsome and dignified, so together they were really like brothers.
It's just that Wang Chuan's temperament is more restrained, and Zou Shiyan is slightly strong.
After the relationship was confirmed, Zou Shiyan also eased a lot, and all the side rooms and yards were almost cleaned up, but there were still some things that needed to be placed.
After resting for a while, several people were a little hungry, Zou Shichu's hungry appearance looked so pitiful, a grunt sounded, and everyone laughed together.
The three men are not very good at cooking, and it is okay to cook hot dishes, but if it is stir-fried and stewed, making pasta, they can only fool themselves!
When Zou Shiyan left today, Li Tao took him a lot of leftover steamed buns and dishes from the back kitchen, and the three of them were all people with great appetites, and soon there was no residue left in the food.
At the end, Zou Shichu wiped his mouth and said, "Brother, I feel that it is really good to be an errand boy in a restaurant, not only do I earn a lot, I don't even have to cook, and I can eat so much delicious food every day." Zou Shichu patted his bulging belly and hiccuped from time to time.
Zou Shiyan stroked Zou Shichu's cheeks, and the bulging on the other party's face looked extremely cute.
Zou Shiyan then began to sort out the luggage and other items he brought from home.
There are a lot of big bags and small bags, but these are far from enough, now there are three people living here, and whether it is the main house or the east and west wings are only some simple furniture, they not only do not have enough quilts now, even firewood, here is more than ten miles away from the suburbs, people in the city are buying firewood to live.
Every morning, farmers from nearby villages carry branches they have picked up in the mountains or pre-cut firewood to bundle up neatly and carry them to the morning market to sell.
As a family that has been rooted in Suizhou City for the last three generations, Li Tao once said that if you want to live in this city, you must learn a skill, even if you earn less, it is better than planting crops in the village and leaving it to fate.
He also said that there are so many places to live in the city that they can drink free well water for those who dig wells at home, or they have to buy vegetables, and some yards have been converted into a circle of houses, often built for rent.
Many of the migrant workers could not afford to buy a house in the city, so they had to live in these cramped houses that had been converted into small houses, living on a tight basis, and they could not even grow vegetables because there was no place for them to do so.
Although the house where Zou Shiyan and the three of them live is in disrepair and no one lives in it, because they used good bricks and tiles when it was built, it looks decent to clean up.
"Brother, I heard that there are still people in the city who buy water from other people's homes, and they can go to other people's homes to fetch water at will by paying a certain amount of money every month, but is it true?" Zou Shichu asked.
He once heard his friends in the village exaggerate the inconveniences of living in the city, because his uncle worked in the city, lived with his family in a courtyard, and was neighbors with seven or eight renters.
I quarrel all day because of a little thing, and I don't have a happy life in the village at all.
"Of course it's true, we are lucky to have this well, so we can use it at will, but for some people, they can't dig a well out of their yard at all, so how can we talk about free."
"In that case, isn't it too much of a waste of money, there are places everywhere to spend money, and one can't help but spend all the money he earns." Zou Shichu asked.